Hypnosis: less than meets the eye?

The cartoon image of hypnosis always involves spinning eyes and a pendulum but does hypnosis actually affect eye movements? A case study by Kallio et al., 2011 showed abnormal eye movements in a highly hypnotizable subject. We we curious if

Studium Generale

I was part of the lecture series about human vision at Studium Generale in Groningen. Together with Esther Polak, I did a lecture about the cross-pollination between art and science. Other talks included Visual Illusions by Whee Ky Ma, Perception as Augmented

The “where” and the “what” of bistable perception

How your brain decides what you see – again and again Barbara Nordhjem, 29th November 2011. Published in the dutch magazine Psyche en Brein [pdf] and my translated version [pdf]. Look at the figures and try if you can see them change. Ambiguous figures